Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written by Eugene O'Neill...
LEGEND has it that Eugene O'Neill's wife, Carlotta, was told never to disturb her husband at work and to leave his meals on a tray outside the door. Once, seeing three days' worth of food still sitting untouched, she anxiously opened the door to find Gene lying prostrate on the floor, weeping. He had just finished writing Long Day's Journey Into Night, the work in which he purged the ghost of his own family memories. The Lowell House production of O'Neill's masterpiece is a faithful and worthwhile rendering of that exquisite agony...
...refreshing to watch a play which has value as literature, which leaves the audience marvelling at O'Neill's ability to craft this tragedy. Each time the foghorn sounds ominously through the mist, and whenever Mrs. Tyrone wanders ghost-like through the house searching in vain for her glasses, we are reminded of the truths which must inevitably be revealed...
...make matters worse, most of the plot elements of Remembrance seem lifted from a host of classic family dramas. There's sibling rivalry and some handy family skeletons in the closet a la O'Neill, and a web of family resentments that seem taken right out of Williams...
...Neill qualified for nationals for the second consecutive year, finishing 6-2 in the final round. One of his losses came in a tough 5-4 bout with eventual champion Dan Nowosielski of Princeton. Penn's Chris O'Loughlin snagged second place...